The DoJ’s Bill Baer last week noted the strong competitive landscape that began taking shape after the FCC shot down AT&T’s $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile.

The FCC and DoJ last year both signed off on SoftBank’s purchase of a majority stake in Sprint. Sprint’s new Chairman Son now is reportedly looking to buy Deutsche Telekom’s approximately 67-percent share of T-Mobile. SoftBank and DT are rumored to be in talks, while Sprint is exploring ways around regulatory hurdles, and lenders are lined up to fund the deal.